John 9:8-13 The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?… In a town filled with Romanists, Gideon Ouseley, as was his custom, hired the bellman to announce through the streets the preaching in the evening. The man, afraid of opposition, uttered the announcement timidly and indistinctly. Ouseley, passing in the street, heard him, and taking the bell, rang it himself, proclaiming aloud, "This is to give notice, that Gideon Ouseley, the Irish Missionary, is to preach this evening in such a place, and at such an hour. And I am the man myself?" (Stevens "History of Methodism.) Parallel Verses KJV: The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? |
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